A new community, collaborative blog for honest, respectful conversations on sex, gender & body is launching on May 1st, 2009.

ATTN: Call for SGB Bloggers and Writers.Do you write about any of these issues and communities?

LGBTQ

TS/TG/TV

FETISH

SEX WORK

POLYAMORY

SWING

FEMINISM

BDSM

TRANSHUMAN

TANTRA

DISABILITIES

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

ADVOCATE OR ACTIVIST

AIDS

FREE SPEECH

RIGHTS

ANYTHING TO DO WITH SEX, GENDER, BODY

Do you work with these communities as an advocate or ally and would like to write? Would you like to make an impact across your own affected community and reach out to other SGB communities? Would you like to help bridge the gap between all SGB identities to increase understanding, acceptance, rights and respect?

A new collaborative community blog is being launched that will bring these communities, individuals and issues together in frank, open discussion. Contributions will come from anyone that wants to post at the site, cross-posters from other blogs active in a community and featured writers.

We are looking for Feature Authors for this site from among the following:

Check out the Events link (at the top of the page). There's all sorts of interesting things coming up for queers and queer zine fans. If you're geographically close to an event, please try to attend. You'll probably find more zines and zinesters, and generally have a blast.

Finally, dig through the archive if you haven't done so in a while. A few more zines have gone up recently, including Queer Action Figures, Lithp Gay, and Freaky Power among others.

Take Action by contacting Penn State University for academic equality!

Penn State University of Harrisburg has been given the generous gift of $3 million dollars. Given by an anonymous philanthropist, “The philanthropist requested that half the total gift be used for scholarships, particularly for women and minority students,”…The other $1.5 million will be used for high-priority initiatives at the College, all of which ultimately benefit students, as well.” http://php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/iit/hbg/about/News/2009-04/04-08-Gift.php

Request that these funds, or funds freed up by this gift, are used to create a better atmosphere for GLBTQ students and all sexual minorities by creating a scholarship for working-class / working-poor lesbian and GLBTQ students as well as the expansion of the Women’s Studies program into a program inclusive of GLBTQ Studies.

Currently, Penn State and Penn State Harrisburg do not offer a major or minor for GLBTQ students to study and speak from their own cultural perspective.

I missed Sunday by a little bit, but I thought that with all the focus on what the courts are doing for gay marriage, people might be interested in what the courts are doing with adoption.

A court case in New York just denied a woman any visitation or custodial rights with her child she helped raise for two and a half years because, even though she had a civil union with her partner, she had never formally adopted the child. And because she was also not the biological mother, she had no standing to request aid from the court.

I talk about the case here and explore some of the things coupled queers can do to avoid this situation and ensure their rights are protected: